Contrastive Linguistics: Theories and Methods Volker Gast 1 Introduction: The subject matter of contrastive linguistics Narrowly defined‚ contrastive linguistics can be regarded as a branch of comparative linguistics that is concerned with pairs of languages which are ‘socio-culturally linked’. Two languages can be said to be socio-culturally linked when (i) they are used by a considerable number of bi- or multilingual speakers‚ and/or (ii) a substantial amount of ‘linguistic output’ (text‚ discourse)
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INTRODUCTION The subject of our project is called Abdallah Qwaider‚ a 19 year-old Palestinian boy who has recently come to Malaysia to further his studies in IIUM. He is enrolled in the faculty of Information Communication Technology but is currently taking English courses in CELPAD. He has been speaking only Arabic for the past 19 years as it his first language and upon coming to Malaysia he faced some difficulties expressing himself and dealing with people who do not speak Arabic. Although he
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Title A contrastive discourse analysis of warnings Author(s) Cheung‚ Wai-ling‚ Sonia.; _5ags². Citation Issue Date 2001 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10722/31894 Rights The author retains all proprietary rights‚ (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. Abstract of thesis entitled A contrastive discourse analysis of warnings submitted by Wai Ling Sonia Cheung a dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
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1. Lexicology and linguistics. Contrastive lexicology‚ object‚ aim‚ and tasks. 2. The history of contrastive lexicology‚ main units and terms. Ukrainian scientists‚ manuals‚ observing. 3. Language and vocabulary. The branches of Contrastive Lexicology. 4. Structural aspects of a word: External and Internal structure. Scientific methods to leant English and Ukrainian words in Comparison. 5. The semantic unity of a word. Polysemy: types of semantic component. Sema‚ Semema‚ semantic field. 6. The main
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Slovenski jezik – Slovene Linguistic Studies 7 (2009): 153–168 Biljana Božinovski Ljubljanska borza‚ d. d.‚ Ljubljana The Language of the Stock Exchange – A Contrastive Analysis of the Lexis V članku je podana analiza jezika borze s stališča slovensko-angleške protistave. Izrazje (samostalniške zveze) obeh jezikov smo protistavili tako v strukturnem kot v semantičnem smislu‚ pri čemer se je razkrilo več protistavnih značilnosti‚ med drugim različni načini ubeseditve istega pojma‚ terminološke
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Tetteh Agor Question: Outline the assumptions of Contrastive Analysis and critically examine the procedures associated with this hypothesis. Introduction This paper will try to explain what is meant by Contrastive Analysis and give a brief background of its development. It will then give an outline of the assumptions of Contrastive Analysis‚ present the procedures and assess their strengths and weaknesses. Contrastive analysis has been defined by Gass and Selinker (1994: 59) as “a
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A Meta-analysis on Revenue Management BBA 7 – G1 Yvonne LIU 302492 Timothy MA 222747 2013-1 Revenue and Pricing Management Statement of authorship I certify that this assignment is my own work and contains no material which has been submitted as part of an assignment in any institute college or university. Moreover‚ to the best of my knowledge and belief‚ it contains no material previously published or written by another person‚ except where due reference is made in the text of the
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Negation‚ –ing forms. 2012 TASK 6 In the following microtexts (i) analyse for meaning and contrastive relevance‚ (ii) suggest suitable translations in Spanish for the given utterances‚ (iii) translate the paragraphs. 1. There was something unreal about sitting in a café with a cup of coffee and a cream bun -- with several small children shouting and screaming to attract the attention of their mothers‚ who were absorbed in well-thumbed magazines—and discovering just how ill Harriet was. 2. Of
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A Critical Review of Meta-Analysis Abstract Meta-analysis has been much debated and criticized since its creation‚ and it has been argued that systematic reviews are superior. The present study examined the reverse idea – that meta-analysis is the superior method. A literature search was conducted of meta-analysis studies for psychotherapy within the PsycINFO database. The resulting studies were further examined and classified as either primary articles or secondary articles. Primary articles
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factors there are environmental effects that are not probable to predict consistently. Therefore‚ leaders need to not just develop meta-models‚ but they should use alternative designs to generate new meta-models to gain better insight on various situations. Scenario The objective for this analysis will be to use all of the tools provided in our meta-model analysis which are the Ruby script‚ AoSummary.rb‚ provide by Professor Sanchez. Also‚ we have been
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